This Week in Literary History: Voltaire Returns to Paris from Exile and 300 People Come to Visit

This Week in Literary History: Voltaire Returns to Paris from Exile and 300 People Come to Visit

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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This Week in Literary History: David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em> Was Published

This Week in Literary History: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Was Published

And the Takes Began

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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On the Past and Present of Authoritarianism, War, and Literature in Europe

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Here are this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award finalists.

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Eugene Lim has won the 2025 John Dos Passos Prize.

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Meet the 2026 United States Artists Writing Fellows.

Meet the 2026 United States Artists Writing Fellows.

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Announcing the 2026 class of Periplus fellows!

Announcing the 2026 class of Periplus fellows!

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Amit Chaudhuri Still Writes His Novels Longhand

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